skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People when carbon capture: This stinks of redirecting tax money. Hold accountable.

> People when carbon tax: You made inflation high. Get out!

This is quite a funny observation. And true. The general psychological bias is when immediate known losses are standing against unknown future gains. Also Americans in particular are allergic to the term tax.

A carbon tax would be the most hands-off way to solve the problem. Ideally phased in slowly and with a clear price structure from the get-go. All you need is:

- industry needs to know how much they will be taxed in X years, so the bean counters can put it in their projections so execs listen

- the tax needs to be tight enough so you can’t escape through tax “planning” aka move operations to unregulated countries

The rest takes care of itself. Once there’s a tangible measurable cost things will change quickly from green leaf-decorated “we care”-pamphlets to fire in the ass of the decision makers.
That is just a meme without substance. The ongoing maintenance cost of a mature Japanese ICE drivetrain is negligible compared to the overall operating costs of the whole car. There is a reason why Toyota hybrids are by far the most popular cars for Uber drivers.
I recall reading an article or something about accessibility a while back. The author had commented that they saw someone coming out government forms on a Nintendo DS (or some such) and that person had commented it was the only thing they had.

I think we developers grossly underestimate how people access technology and what our minimum targets should be.
It's been studied. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/w53k8/download

"Rational inference and good-enough processing actively trade off with each other during reading."

A slightly broader term would be "illusory inferences"
So, with about 10.000 kg of these in my basement (2MWh capacity), I should be mostly self-sufficient? Nice!
(4MWh electricity usage per year, with solar panels producing slightly more)
It's as if human civilization is reaching adulthood, late 20s early 30s, where the errors of being young and foolish start catching up to you.
> dozens of amps

So like two microwaves. It's also not running 20 amps through the Arduino, if the switch the software is flipping is rated for that much power then it's fine.
This is truly one of those "it begins" moments.

The article touches on it - but the news goes well beyond the battery. Li ion batteries come with significant geopolitical baggage beyond simple cost.

The situation is well summarised by the graph on this page.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/chart-countries-produ...
Mullvad's security team should have found this problem on their own, and as soon as it appeared:

Inspect security empirically - you might think that your security must work, but that means nothing; you must investigate empirically: All data going to the Internet must pass through the gateway. Collect the packets on the gateway, not on the device, and inspect them for leaks. Finding leaks should be trivial at that point.

The only trick might be cellular connections: We don't know that leaks aren't unique to cellular connections. I know cellular gateways can be setup, but are the packets inspectable at a level that will reveal leaks?
I’ve dealt with the problem for over three decades. Never found a solution other than don’t type until the pain goes away.

I’ve put effort into researching it and gathering the data so others might be able to identify solutions that work for them.

I’m always looking for ways to “cope with it”. If you’ve got something that’s not on my list…

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes
Yes, these were fun too. You know somebody should take these and add mouse position as the event trigger for eye movement, that would probably turn it into a nice creepy version of the Simpsons.
https://theunderground.blog/feed.xml
Likewise Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about how sustainability hype in general is oriented toward sustaining consumer lifestyles, which will never really be compatible with living in a closed ecosystem.
People use the brightness, volume, and music keys, rather than the Fn-modified “F” versions.
Took me wayyy to long to realize that this is not for people who inspect buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_inspection

I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp!
AI Crystal Ball: Discover your developer destiny
AI Crystal Ball is a prank project that gets a person's top 5 programming languages from their GitHub account and uses them to generate a funny prediction of their future 5 years from now.

The project is open-source and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/adityaoberai/AI-Crystal-Ball
Let the be Android and custom roms
I don't disagree at all, what the CCP is doing in Xinjiang is some of the most evil stuff as a direct action to a group of people.

What I'd like to bring into discussion is: in the USA there's a visible cohort of people being marginalised and sent into a life of despair because of policies, ideologies, cultural aspects that really shouldn't be happening in the richest country on Earth. Homelessness to the level some rich cities in the USA experience, coupled with drug addiction which is then treated as a criminal issue resulting often in imprisonment, further marginalising people into a spiral of despair.

Those are also evil actions, due to inaction, policy, cultural aspects, it's layered evil to not look so evil but not fixing some social issues that put people into misery and despair, letting them slowly die on their own because of an ideology where those are seen as being useless to society is also quite evil, in a very different way than the CCP, it's indirect, it's not the State directly harming those people but through inaction letting them to wilt and slowly die.

I'm not saying, at all, that those are equivalent, at the same time is befuddling that the wealthiest nation on Earth is, in its majority, ok with allowing it to happen to the unfortunate ones. It's a different kind of evil but evil nonetheless.
> Because I don't have time to grovel through everything I've ever posted to find examples where I conceded a point.

Is that the only reason you are unable? Are you sure such examples exist?

>> Remember your claim above?

> Yes. What does that have to do with anything?

Why would you not know the answer to this? You know the answer to everything that's been presented to you, do you not? (Well, except for the substantial amount of questions that have been asked of you throughout these various conversations, by myself and others, that you have dodged. Or the cases where you have asserted that you possess knowledge, but are unwilling to respond to challenges to such claims.)

> So what is your point???

I believe it is possible that:

a) you are not perfectly rational.

b) you are conducting yourself in these internet conversations as if you are.

c) you do not have a deep understanding of the subtle and complex differences between belief and knowledge.

Do you believe that I may be on to something, at least possibly?
I recently read "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden and recommend it. The chapters on what is money, the history of money, and so on, were very educational.

One of my key takeaways was: The economic system and the sociopolitical system sits on a foundation of the financial system (i.e., central banks / The Fed). Talking about "the economy" without talking about the foundation it sits on is foolish exercise.

https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
Plastics can be beneficial for global warming. They need less energy for making them and for transporting them than the alternatives. And they sequester CO2 when they are landfilled at the end of their useful life. We should be pushing them back underground through the same holes we used to dig up the carbon.
This is about the continuous background location permission. In the past years they have cracked down on this, yes. But nothing forbids you from requesting the foreground approximate or fine location permissions.

So yes, this hypothetical flashlight app can request the permission. The user has to allow it in some way - approx or precise, one-time or always. But also nowadays the users sees when & what app is requesting these kind of permissions. It's a moot point.

(For background location there's an extensive form in the play store, you even have to send videos in many cases - for foreground, there's nothing)
You don't need as much wing-area underwater as you need on the air.
Any thoughts on what role creative coding plays in the overall software engineering field? Is it done for recreation and art? Do people use it to create and sell products as well?

I love watching and working through The Coding Train videos! One reason why I haven't gone deep into creative coding is I don't know where I'll use it.
Indeed the charging cables are already massive. Just need some superconducting cables.
And that is why the I in AI is still misleading.
Ntcharts – Golang TUI Charts for Bubble Tea
Python2's SimpleHTTPServer was what it said on the box.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html

Python2's httpservr is more complex:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html#module-ht...

Good luck.
Show HN: Gauntlet – Raycast-inspired open-source application launcher
Hi everyone, about a year ago I discovered Raycast and really liked the idea of it: writing plugins in React and TypeScript. But Raycast is available only on macOS and I am hopping between different OS quite a lot. It also isn't open source, which is not a huge deal but would have been nice to have. So I decided to create my own, because it looked like it could be a lot of fun and the scope was manageable for a single person.

I went with plugin-first approach focusing on plugin APIs, everything builtin plugins provide (and more) can be also implemented by any plugin. At the moment API surface is minimal but usable, I want to work on creating plugin documentation before extending it further.

Plugins are distributed as part of Git repository, meaning no central server is required.

For JS runtime Gauntlet is using using Deno, which, among other things, gives nice security model allowing to be explicit about things plugins can do on your system.

Gauntlet is also designed with cross-platform in mind from the start. Currently supporting Linux with macOS and Windows support coming in near future.

Please join Discord server if you want to follow for updates or interested in creating a plugin. You can find the link in the beginning of the README. It is currently pretty empty in here but hopefully not for long.
At a guess, probably because it matches or at least is in the same order of magnitude encode speed as JPEG XL? It starts to feel like bait and switch if we say "look what we can do with >1000x slower encode", without noting that JPEG XL can also do a bit better with more encode time, and yet practical encoders, especially HW, use much higher speed settings.

Note: the 20-35% is BDrate, which in this context likely(?) involves some form of PSNR, which has almost nothing to do with human perception and IMO should not be used to guide such decisions.
Arguably, the idiots of this world done have far too much to nobble freedom in so many different fields. Those people cannot be helped and keep on creating problems no matter what, so why should you restrict the freedoms of those who are smart, capable and resourceful?

Certain professionals should be licensed, because people need to know they are safe, but within your personal domain you should have a lot more freedom.
What you personally do is only part of your job. Communicating with others is probably at least the other 50%. Even if your an individual consultant your clients will expect you to communicate with them.
Yes. Please. I need this so much. This would solve so many of my issues with text alignment.
With Gemini, even with terminal clients you can open the inlined images in a typical blog on a gemini capsule with a fast external viewer, such as sxiv with you just can fullscreen with 'f' and q with 'q'. In the case of gopher, it's either a directory with a gophermap, or a text file with the content. You can't have two at the same time. Using a gophermap directory as a fake text post it's a bit of a hack abusing the 'i' item, and it can look really bad on some older clients.
The german version of the first two books can be found (for example) here: http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Grimm,+Jacob+und+Wilhelm/M%C...
or more pointedly how Mozilla is too distracted
Energy density isn't a particularly interesting target for stationary energy storage applications. I'd assume that they just aren't optimizing much for it (yet).
Yup, me too. Actually I needed this comment for it to click, I was reading the src looking for code that might have something to do with beams and buildings.
From playing 20 Questions and attempting to formalise it?

EDIT: actually the cryptography connection is more likely: Leibniz was XVII; who was it that was already using binary alternatives for steganography a few centuries earlier?

EDIT2: did entropy in p-chem come before or after Shannon?

EDIT3: well before; S = k_B ln Ω was 1877.
Cosmic-mapping project seems to show that dark energy could be weakening
You should try to use OSL instead of MO (or TT) as the layer key action: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/one_sho...
I had to back off that and instead do other games (ie, wandrer.earth gives you points for "new miles") because I got a bit too competitive and borderline dangerous.

Besides, I got records and fastest times when e.g. wind was at my back or the lights all went my way - so I knew it wasn't just my effort & just happenstance.

I still use Strava - mostly as a personal blog of my efforts & take a picture of wildlife or crazy videos to share with others sometimes.
If not, how do we mitigate those increases without CDR?

Maybe we don't, and the magical CDR unicorn isn't going to come and save us. I don't mean to speak for parent, but CDR is the "least effective way", yet many are speaking as if it's the most viable solution. And maybe it is, because $DEITY forbid that a dollar of CO2-producing profit be left on the table, but if that's the case then we are most certainly doomed.
The problem is that, while your setup has excellent de-facto security, what matters is security posture. The parties that you authenticate to do not know and cannot know that your actual security is better than your posture visible to them. They have nothing to rule out the hypothesis that you use the same password everywhere else, and they still suspect that you can, by mistake, enter the same password on a phishing site.

By using passkeys, you prove to the relying parties that you do not use the same credential on another possibly insecure (hackable) website and that the browser will not reuse the credential for you on a phishing site, as it is technically impossible.

EDIT: all of the above is based on the marketing materials. I do not have any passkeys, but I use my Nitrokey U2F for 2FA on some important websites. I will possibly switch once platform-level or browser-native support for passkeys (as opposed to extensions like the ones provided by BitWarden or KeePassXC) is available on desktop Linux.
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Well, hybrids sometimes get to replace the transmission with EV bits, like Toyota's system. Imagine an engine and exhaust system; now multiply the complexity by 100 and you have a modern transmission. Toyota hybrids (and GM/Chrystler/Honda) replace all that with a single planetary gearset, or with Honda, one clutch.

Other systems, think Volvo, pop the EV bits in the back of the car and replace where the drive shaft used to be with batteries. That seems like a decent trade to me as well. Still have a transmission, but at least it's not purely additive.

AND one man's added complexity is another's redundancy. If the charging module goes bad in a hybrid, you can still drive. Or if you run out of gas.

All that said... I still prefer EVs to hybrids. Do one thing, do it well, I say!
We can capture carbon before emitting it. For example if we can use carbon to make plastic that saves us energy (especially in areas where energy doesn't come from renewables) then it's a huge benefit. Especially if we don't burn the plastic afterwards, just put it under ground instead.
Yeah, I couldn't imagine hosting my Most Important Notes on a freebie service whose provenance I don't entirely know.

Notes are self host for me.
It just means the infrastructure gets the same cheap batteries as buffer.
That's certainly possible - and likely. I hadn't thought about it from that perspective.
Show HN: Jsonfly.nvim: Search and insert deeply nested keys into your JSON file
Everything Apple Plans to Show at May 7 'Let Loose' iPad Event
I mostly don't mind them, except for the ones with shortened right-shift key. Those I have to contort my right pinky finger uncomfortably to use Shift, which I use much more frequently than the arrow keys (since I use Vim keybinds for literally everything possible).
Thank you for sharing that! I am definitely part of the HN group think that tends to be irked by mass marketing- mainly because of baggage from the past of false advertising. However, I do agree that getting the non-IT geek's attention is what would actually move the needle for political action. I was amused (mostly surprised) to see a billboard while driving down the 110 in LA. More importantly, it led to a cool discussion with my non-tech wife who now appreciates your guys' brand more. :)
Really excited to see that the battery is entering production. Feels like every year we hear about new batteries in the lab that are "2x-5x as efficient as Lithium ion" but they never seem to actually hit production.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/engineers-created-revolutionary-b...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/05/13/ev-ran...

[3] https://news.mit.edu/2022/aluminum-sulfur-battery-0824
Depends on the production economics, how fast they scale, and what issues are discovered in real world use. There is some risk for everyone with new tech.
Maybe this will force Apple to be innovative. Or maybe they'll just increase service pricing and gradually cut features and material costs in an attempt to keep both margins and revenue high. My bet with Tim Cook is unfortunately the latter.
As a chatbot, can you answer the question that was asked (as opposed to a different question that is more to your liking) in this comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241420
Looks like an exact copy of shipfa.st
I worked as a repair tech for years, and I found that many performance problems could be fixed with that sysinternals startup tool (I forgot the name, it's been a long time) and just disabling stuff. This would be 5 minutes if you knew what you were doing.

The second was hardware issues, especially slow hard drives that started to fail but hadn't quite failed yet. There was a tool to read all data and print drops in performance (again, I forgot the name). This was before SSDs became commonplace – I don't know what it's like with SSDs.

I was as productive as anyone in terms of number of customers helped/week, but looking at my coworkers there were definitely two types of techs: the ones like me who knew what they were doing, and the ones who didn't. I know this sounds rather arrogant and pompous, but it's true.

As a company, you can give people the time and space to develop this know-how, or you can't, which is how you end up with "just reinstall shrug" type of repair shops. I was lucky enough to work at a small independent shop where we were given lots of free space and autonomy, and some of us took this to become pretty good at fixing stuff in short turnaround times, which benefited everyone.

We developed a bunch of internal tooling for this, too. I maintained Anduril, our FreeBSD-based live disk with tons of stuff (the company name was Aragorn, so this seemed like a good name).

Of course, this store no longer exists. Or rather, they pivoted to business support, because there's just no competing against the online stores with €10 profit margins on every laptop they sell, and there just aren't enough consumers to care about quality support to make the financials work out.
>I suspect Google would cite the same policy this manifesto cites as evidence of it's support as a reason to remove/sanction people posting this manifesto to company resources.

Possibly yes, which is fine as long as it's consistently applied. The key distinction in this case is srid didn't post a manifesto, he had a link to his personal blog in his profile.

>That Google is an obvious hypocrite over Israel's behaviour doesn't seem to me indicative that they've totally flipped on every other issue

Not sure what this means considering the context. They're most definitely hypocritical because just four years ago they let "politics" get in the way of mission during the BLM political unrest. They most definitely have flipped on allowing orthogonal political discussions at work, which is the only issue under consideration here.

>or that things this manifesto considers political would be considered political inside Google.

Identity politics, leftist performative activism, alt-right screeds, etc. are most definitely now considered "political" inside Google considering Sundar's blog post linked above. It's a refreshing welcomed change to be honest.
I use simplescreenrecorder on X.
Not for flexible cables.
There’s no equivalent to coloured diesel for electronic devices, unfortunately. So everyone has to pay the tax even if you’re not going to use the roads, to complete the metaphor.
VR can motivate people to donate to refugee crises regardless of politics
Sodium is quite plentiful, and it doesn't need mining. Sodium batteries, if competitive, would be quite a revolution.
yes, enormously helpful, if true (no figures are given, and they may be comparing to low-power lithium-ion batteries instead of high-power ones). an equally valid way to say '10 times faster discharge rate' is '10 times higher power for the same capacity' or '10 times higher power density'

there are available li-ion batteries with a charge and discharge rate of '15c', which is to say, 1 hour ÷ 15 = 4 minutes. they are used in drones. (there are some advertised as '30c' but i suspect those are maybe just a fraud? like the notorious amazon million-lumen flashlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceA5xL6ggEw) if they really reach '150c', you could discharge 10% of the battery in 2.4 seconds, which is closer to a firework rocket engine than a conventional battery. but, a rocket engine that you can recharge 50000 times

a charge rate of '150c' would mean you could charge the battery halfway in 12 seconds, and there are a lot of scenarios where that would be useful

you could imagine '150c' batteries displacing much larger supercapacitors from many uses, rather than displacing conventional batteries. the number given in the article of 70 watt hours per kilogram is, in si units, 250kJ/kg. if you divide that by the 24 seconds implied by '10 times faster than lithium-ion' you get a power density of 10.4 kilowatts per kilogram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_density says supercaps are in the 15 kilowatts per kilogram range. quadcopter drone electric motors are typically in the neighborhood of 4–5 kilowatts per kilogram, so this would make the drone battery much smaller than the motor instead of bigger

more likely, though, it's a press release lie, where they're saying something that's technically true (there are lithium batteries with a '1c' charge and discharge rate, which have higher energy density than the higher-powered ones, and their batteries reach '10c', i.e., 6 minutes) but creates a false impression of something that would be a huge breakthrough if it were true
Yes, it could be a fit issue - ie, seat height is wrong, need more padding in your clothing, etc.
it's a major accessibility hinderance as well
(co-founder) Sry about that - if you want to email lowercasehq@gmail.com I can remove and confirm for you.